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Labour MP, Anne Begg, elected as Chair of Work and Pensions Select Committee
Parliament announces result of election held on 9 June 2010
11 June, 2010
New Work Programme to be in place nationally by Summer 2011
Government 'determined to move quickly' according to Ministerial Statement
11 June, 2010
Radical reform of child benefit being considered by Frank Field
Chair of review on poverty and life chances looking at ending payments when child reaches age 13 or 14
11 June, 2010
Social security is 'principally a national competence rather than an EU competence' says Minister for Employment
Ministerial Statement on the EU Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council
11 June, 2010
Co-ordination of social security provision within the EU under EC Regulation 883/2004
New DWP Guidance
10 June, 2010
Payment of employment and support allowance where an appeal has been made in Northern Ireland
New Statutory Rule
10 June, 2010
Government confirms cuts to social security and tax credit budgets
Treasury publishes Spending Review Framework
09 June, 2010
Frank Field to chair review on poverty and life chances
Labour MP to report to David Cameron by the end of the year
08 June, 2010
Shelving of plan to extend free school meals is a £600 'tax' bombshell for low income families in work says CPAG
Response to announcement made in letter to Ed Balls from Secretary of State for Education
08 June, 2010
Lord Freud proposes 'black box' approach to new work programmes
'We will judge you by your results and pay you accordingly' Minister for Welfare Reform tells providers
07 June, 2010
Extra help with fuel bills for pension credit claimants
New DWP policy document on the Energy Rebate Scheme
02 June, 2010
Making local housing allowance payments direct to claimant's landlord
New DWP good practice guide in response to concerns about how 'safeguards' administered
01 June, 2010
Alternative means of notifying benefit departments of births and deaths
New HB Guidance
28 May, 2010
Benefits worth £1.3bn underpaid last year
DWP publishes new fraud and error statistics
28 May, 2010
Campaigners in Scotland concerned with government's focus on conditionality, sanctions and reassessing claimants onto lower levels of benefit
CPAG in Scotland, the Poverty Alliance and Citizens Advice Scotland respond to Secretary of State's welfare reform proposals
28 May, 2010
Citizens Advice welcomes proposals for prescription charge reform
Response to Department of Health review on the reform of prescription charges for people with long term conditions.
28 May, 2010
Pathways to Work programme has had 'limited impact' and provides 'poor value for money' says National Audit Office
New report also finds no evidence that contracted out services performing better than Jobcentre Plus
28 May, 2010
HMRC error reveals personal details of up to 50,000 tax credit claimants
Letter of apology from director of tax credits requests return of incorrect notices
27 May, 2010
Secretary of State calls for end to 'culture of welfare dependency'
Iain Duncan Smith says that 'deeply unfair' benefit system means that for many people work 'does not pay'
27 May, 2010
Welfare Reform and Pensions Bills introduced in today's Queen's Speech
Measures designed to build a strong and fair society and encourage individual social responsibility, says government
25 May, 2010
